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Battlefield 4 optimized for AMD graphics on PCs

According to reports, DICE is taking extra time to optimize Battlefield 4 for AMD hardware. EA and AMD have a partnership where select games, the first one being Battlefield 4, will be optimized for AMD hardware. And it makes sense that they chose AMD, as the company provides similar hardware for next generation games consoles as well.

Both the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One are powered by an 8-core AMD CPU. To make matters even more interesting, both the PS4 and Xbox One feature GPUs made by AMD — using the same type of compute units found in current Radeon PC graphics cards. By optimizing for Radeon cards, the game will run great on next gen consoles, and as a result, PCs running the same type of hardware from AMD will see an added benefit.

However, EA’s official position on the matter is that DICE is working with various other partners (read: Nvidia) to ensure that Battlefield 4 runs great on other hardware as well. But if you’re on AMD hardware, expect a bit of extra performance, especially if you have an AMD graphics card.

AMD powered the PCs that ran the Battlefield 4 demo’s at E3. The systems ran on an 8-core AMD CPU with powerful AMD GPUs. The entire system was a beast, and cost $4,000 per PC. And EA had 64 of them at E3.

The Battlefield series has always been one of the games that enticed gamers to upgrade their hardware. Both BF2 and BF3 resulted in increased sales for both AMD and Nvidia, and there’s no doubt that many will upgrade their hardware this Fall when Battlefield 4 hits the stores.

Will you be upgrading your hardware for Battlefield 4? Or will you get the console version? Let us know in the comments section!

You’re an idiot, if you actually have a look at some benchmarks, then you will see that AMD cards are actually quite similar in performance. They each have their own strengths and weaknesses. I’ll out it simply for you, as you obviously don’t know much about GPU’s. AMD cards run better on games such as Crysis, and well, BF4, simply because they are optimized. Nvidia cards run better on games such as BF3 because it is optimize. (I couldn’t be bothered to look for more examples for you).

There is no “better” GPU brand, it’s entirely up to preference and which games you are willing to play…

AMD is the budget choice since I can remember. This is obviously the reason why their cards were chosen for consoles.
At this moment, the most powerful AMD card can only be compared with mainstream Nvidia cards, because Nvidia high-end cards are miles away from the best AMD chipset.
I can’t understand how you people can be so blind. Just watch any tests and benchmarks to see the facts and stop talking nonsense.
BF4 would have to be highly optimized for 7970 to surpass the gtx 670, and that’s the nvidia mainstream chipset.

but GTX is better than AMD , why focusing on the weak while you have the stronger ? even on ps4 they said from the start it was powered by nvidia but then it was powered by AMD even with the good graphics sony should use GTX .

Do you even know what you’re talking about?
Yes, the GTX Titan holds the performance crown, but an average gamer can’t afford it anyway. The â‚¬ 200 pricepoint is where the money is being made, and there AMD and Nvidia trade blows there.
Yes, both XBox One and PS4, use a Graphics Core Next based GPU, but that doesn’t mean a thing either. Optimization is done at a very late stage in the development process either how, mostly by AMD and Nvidia providing code snippets to optimize the game rendering engine.

Obviously they are going to optimize both. But it’s going to be more optimized with AMD.

Yes, AMD pays them good money and DICE agree to have a partnership with them is bad development. That makes no sense.
And by the way, in case you haven’t realized, DICE can’t choose Nvidia and AMD. You can have a partnership with both competitors…

You clearly need to read between the lines and put a little more thought into this

@roflsunriz – it is easily possible to optimised code for either hardware set and simply use a hardware detection variable to run the correct optimised procedure for the appropriate hardware during runtime.

If %amd% Then ThrowPixelsAtAMD
ElseIf %nvidia% Then ThrowPixelsAtGF
Else
ThrowPixelsAndPray
End If

Not rocket science. Optimisation is just making best use of hardware specific functionality. In this case, either AMD or SONY/Microsoft are sponsoring DICE to make the game run a bit better on their hardware for the PR value.
While it might be a little better on AMD, it’s hardly in DICE’s interest to have their flagship game run like crap on 52% of all gaming PC’s, now is it?

Dice says they optimize their game especially for one brand so they can get more people to buy their line of graphic cards (with whom they have partnered with).

that doesn’t necessarily mean nVidia gfx cards will be less optimized for bf4, though i guess PhysX will not be present, nor TXAA.

thing is, they have already pulled that trick 2 years ago when they said the optimize the game for nVidia cards so people would buy them. (and those cards can still run BF4 on a pretty high setting, so no reason to get people to buy the next line of gfx cards)

my OC’ed AMD HD7850 can run BF3 on ultra without problem and even better than GTX 570 owners, even if the game is “nVidia optimized”.

I don’t think the final version will run significantly worse on Intel or Nvidia hardware, EA wont want to alienate a large chunk of its customers. I upgraded to a 4770K and GTX 780 just before the alpha hit, so I’m already committed now. But even if I wasn’t, I wouldn’t rush out and buy all AMD just for their marketing exercise.

hey guys,
i’m new to PC gaming and so i am of need of some help with understanding if i need to upgrade my graphics card.
i have a custom build gaming rig that has a “AMD duel fan 7770 black edition”
and i also have only one monitor.
should i spend the money and get a “AMD duel fan 7970″? or should i get another monitor to have that feature of having the map on a second monitor?

Honestly if your wanting to use two monitors your going to want to have more vram, if i was you i would be going for 3gbs of vram which the 7970 provides im not sure if they make a 2gb version but i wouldnt want a 2gb version if it was me. Me myself im a nvidia guy but theres nothing wrong with amd, i actually have 2 builds one with the fx 8150 and a hd 6950 and one with an i7 3770k and two gtx 670’s in sli yes a tad overkill i know but i built up to this second system slowly xD but yes sorry i deverged if your wanting solid gaming at 1080p on one monitor as a minimum id go with the 7970 because i just recently built 2 pc’s for a couple friends and one had the xfx 7770 and the other with an msi 7750 and i saw crap gaming at 1080p in my opinion they are not 1080p cards if your looking for a solid 40-60fps at all times. So down to the point please just get the 7970 or hell i believe and dont quote me because i havnt kept up with it but wait for the 8xxx series they should be coming out soon i think and it would drop the price of the 7xxx series what ever ya want im just throwing some ideas out there. good luck on your decision.